Moments Quotes by Maya Angelou

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I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see…

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Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true…

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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again…

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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I…

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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,…

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If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded…

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I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies,…

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Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the…

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“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my…

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I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think…

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You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you…

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“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of…

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are…

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